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DXL: a sounding rocket mission for the study of solar wind charge exchange and local hot bubble X-ray emission.
Document Type
Article
Source
Experimental Astronomy. Nov2011, Vol. 32 Issue 2, p83-99. 17p.
Subject
*X-ray astronomy
*FIELD emission
*ROCKETS (Weapons)
*GALAXIES
*ARTIFICIAL satellites
*BUBBLES
*SOLAR wind
Language
ISSN
0922-6435
Abstract
The Diffuse X-rays from the Local galaxy (DXL) mission is an approved sounding rocket project with a first launch scheduled around December 2012. Its goal is to identify and separate the X-ray emission generated by solar wind charge exchange from that of the local hot bubble to improve our understanding of both. With 1,000 cm proportional counters and grasp of about 10 cm sr both in the 1/4 and 3/4 keV bands, DXL will achieve in a 5-min flight what cannot be achieved by current and future X-ray satellites. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]